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Ryan Holiday
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March 8 - March 11, 2018
It was, as Nietzsche put it, a war of knives against the present age.
Over time, culture can sour. “Creeds, like streams, gather strength as they narrow, thriving on bigotry,� the biographer William Manchester observed.
Scipio Africanus, the general who defeated Hannibal, would say that an army should not only leave a road for their enemy to retreat by, they should pave it. The Romans had a name for this road, the Gallic Way.
